I am affiliated with the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of Turku. I am currently working on two research projects. The first, funded by the Strategic Research Council (Academy of Finland), is titled Family Formation in Flux – Causes, Consequences and Possible Futures (FLUX). As part of the consortium, I am investigating the demographic, social and economic determinants of changing fertility and family dynamics in my role as work package leader. The second research project is a Nordic collaboration funded by the Danish ROCKWOOL Foundation. The project is titled Determinants of later and forgone parenthood in the Nordic countries'. Examining the Role of Housing and Labour Market Careers (NORDPARENT), for which I am the lead researcher in Finland.. I am also a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki in Finland and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany.

I teach Social Inequalities (INWS0014) as part of the MPInvest Master's Degree Programme in Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State.